Improvement in card-holding devices for street-cars



C. Q. RING. Card-Holding Device for Street-Oars.

No. 214,316. Patented April 15, 1879.

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CONSTANT Q. RING, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARD-HOLDING DEVICES FOR STREET-CARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 214,316, dated April 15, 1879 application filed February 3, 1879.

To all trhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CONSTANT Q. RING, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Gard- Holding Devices for Street-Oars, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for holding cards in street-cars, whereby the usual larger-sized cards referring to amusements and cards of greater length from bottom to top than between the tops of the windows and the roof-plates may be properly and plainly exhibited, and be quickly and readily applied or removed.

In ordinary street-cars it is customary to hold cards in independent frames fastened to the sides of the cars between the window-tops and roof-plates; but to remove or apply these cards, the frames, the depths of which are too little for the ordinary theater-cards, which frequently contain a photograph, must be removed.

My invention consists in providing within the interiorof a street-oar long strips of wood or other molding, one strip-preferably a grooved strip-being attached to the car side or ribs between the windows and roof-plate, and the other strip to the roof-rafters above the roofplate, the latter strip being provided with open spaces below it for the introduction and passage under it of a card.

Figure 1 represents a partial side elevation of the interior of one side of a car, the usual windows and seat being omitted; and Fig. 2 is a section thereof.

The uprights a are supposed to be the usual vertical ribs or beams entering into the composition of the side of the car, and between them is the usual window-space b. At the top of these uprights a is the roof-plate c, it also serving to receive the rafters d, upon which is laid the roof e, in the usual way. Upon the uprights a, by suitable screws, 1 have attached the strip of wood or molding f, grooved longitudinally, as at g, to receive and hold the lower ends of the large cards h. The strip 1', for holding the upper ends of these cards, is, by screws 2, secured to a foundationstrip, j, attached directly to the rafters d, and a space, k, is left between i and j of sufficient width to permit the passage between them ofcards, which, to be introduced into the groove y, will be first passed between 'ij.

Gard-securing devices 1, herein shown as screws, may be made to impinge directly upon the upper ends of the cards h. The cards in holding-strips arranged in this way may be securely held and be made to assume uniform symmetrical curves.

1 claim- 1. A card-holder for street-cars, composed of a grooved strip or molding, f, attached near the roof-plate, and a divided strip or molding, t j, attached to the rafters above the roof-plate, to receive and retain cards of large size, and permit of their introduction and removal at pleasure and with facility, substantially as described.

2. A card-holder for street-cars, composed of a grooved strip or molding, f, and a divided strip or molding, t'j, combined substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OONSTANT Q. RING.

Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, N. E. WHITNEY. 

